Getting started

There once was an awful prig
who wanted a musical gig,
but he never left his bed
till his mother sternly said
“Get out, you lazy pig!”

It is against the flow of nature to do anything from a state of inertia. If you do overcome that inertia however, it becomes a lot easier to gather momentum. So the question is, what is that first step you need to take to give you just a little bit of momentum to get going?